| Protest stage in India against attack on religious sites in SriLanka |
[Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 03:59 PM] [ ] |
 Multi religious leaders in Chennai stage protest to stop attack carried out against the minority community people in SriLanka. [More] |
| Government invests Rs.3,400 million in the Greek banks - UNP |
| [Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 03:23 PM] |
 UNP general secretary Tissa Attanayake says indications are that the country’s economy is on the verge of collapse. [More] |
| Convict may have returned to Sri Lanka: UK Police |
| [Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 02:57 PM] |
 British Police are hunting for a convicted Sri Lankan-born fraudster who has been on the run for nearly six years. British Police officers suspect he may have returned to Sri Lanka, and have appealed for any information to help find him. [More] |
| Palitha Kohona's name proposed to UN Budget Post |
| [Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 02:10 PM] |
 Earlier this year, after a backroom process involving Saudi Arabia, the Asia Group at the UN nominated Sri Lanka for its seat on Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's Senior Advisory Group on Peacekeeping Operations. [More] |
| With whom do SLMC would join eastern provincial council election: Final decision today |
| [Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 01:51 PM] |
 Tonight SriLanka Muslim Congress would decide whether to join the SriLanka Freedom Party in the upcoming local council election. [More] |
| CID ordered to submit report on Duminda Silva |
| [Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 01:41 PM] |
 Colombo additional magistrate Prasanna Alwis today (July 10) ordered the CID to submit a report regarding the condition of injured MP Duminda Silva, who is receiving treatment at Mt. Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore. [More] |
| 82 suspected Aussie bound trawlers nabbed in Trincomalee |
| [Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 01:40 PM] |
 Navy arrested 82 individuals illegally tried to visit Australia by two boats arrested at the Trincomalee sea this morning. [More] |
| Mother pledge to save the life of her son |
| [Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 01:14 PM] |
 Prisoner injured at the Vavuniya prison rights later transferred to the Mahara prison and currently receiving treatment at the Ragama teaching hospital. Mother of Mutturaj Dilrukshan urge officials to rescue the life of her son who’s currently in the coma condition and his legs were chained with the hospital bed. [More] |
| Burnt bodies of mother and daughter recovered in Kinniya |
| [Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 01:09 PM] |
 Burnt bodies of mother and daughter recovered from a house in Kinniya Allangeni area today, police said. [More] |
| Lands in Jaffna would be acquire to expand the Palaly Airport and the Kankesanthurai Harbour: Maj.Hathurisinghe |
| [Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 01:05 PM] [] |
 Amid claims that the Army has no plans to acquire lands in Jaffna to establish camps, the military said it would acquire only a limited extent of land to expand the Palaly Airport and the Kankesanthurai Harbour, which are being expanded. [More] |
| Gotabaya take over all the power: Army Commander Jagath Jayasuriya |
| [Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 10:44 AM] |
 Army Commander Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya has told former Army Commander General Rohan Daluwatte that he could only issue orders to the Seva Vanitha Unit and the Civil Administration Unit in the Army under Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa. [More] |
| Over 600 Sri Lankan Tamils have perished in the Indian Ocean |
| [Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 10:40 AM] |
 Over 600 Sri Lankan Tamils have perished in the Indian Ocean sailing from the south Indian coast in sea-unworthy boats for greener pastures in Australia and Canada, says S.C. Chandrahasan, who heads the OfERR (Organisation for Ealam Refugees Rehabilitation), quoting from reliable statistics. [More] |
| Vehicle gutted in fire on Expressway |
| [Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 10:38 AM] |
 A vehicle traveling towards Colombo from Galle on the Southern Expressway was completely destroyed by flames at Gelanigama near the 12.6 Mile Post, police said. [More] |
| Lankan government thoroughly condemns the judgment of Canadian courts |
| [Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 10:32 AM] |
 Sri Lankan government condemns the judgment announced by the Canadian courts recently. [More] |
| 2 individuals tried to visit Australia arrested at Trincomalee |
| [Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 10:31 AM] |
 Two men were taken into police custody while waiting to flee to Australia illegally in Sambalthivu, Trincomalee police said. [More] |
| Rulling party CM candidates would be decide today |
| [Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 05:23 AM] |
 The Central Committee of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party will meet tonight to take some crucial decisions, including whether to accept the condition put forward by the SLMC to contest under the UPFA Banner and Betel leaf symbol at the forthcoming election to the Eastern Provincial Council, SLFP sources said yesterday. [More] |
| Appoint international election monitors: UNP |
| [Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 03:35 AM] |
 United National party urges to appoint international election monitor to monitor the upcoming provincial council election schedule to hold on month of September. [More] |
| Buddhist monks visits houses to collect money in Jaffna |
| [Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 03:32 AM] |
 Buddhist monks in the Jaffna town collect money by visiting to the houses of people and shops in the Jaffna district. [More] |
| Strong winds arond the island: Met department |
| [Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 03:14 AM] |
 The Met Department said this evening that, due to the active South-West monsoonal conditions, strong south-westerly winds would continue to prevail over the island and surrounding seas. [More] |
| PHI's engage in strike due to attack against their collide |
| [Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 03:09 AM] |
 A Public Health Inspector was assaulted to death with a wooden pestle yesterday near the Saliyapura Community Hall in Kantale while he was inspecting the compound of a house. [More] |
| Many LTTE personals killed during the last stage of war: Gotabaya |
| [Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 03:00 AM] |
 Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa stated death statistic of last stage of war in country has been released according to the own wishes of several people. [More] |
| Parents of dead Sri Lankan Tamil prisoner 'denied last rites' |
| [Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 02:28 AM] |
 The parents of a prisoner who died in obscure circumstances in Sri Lanka are locked in a battle with officials who say his body cannot be taken to his home town for the last rites. [More] |
| I will visit SriLanka: Indian Minister |
| [Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 02:12 AM] |
 India’s Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh is set to arrive in the country on Wednesday (July 11), becoming the second Indian Cabinet Minister to visit Sri Lanka this year. [More] |
Parliamentarian Ravi Karunanayaka of Sri Lanka main opposition United National Party (UNP) said yesterday that the UNP turned down a request from a former terrorist to contest the Northern Provincial Council elections under the party. [
The entire world was asking Sri Lanka to give into the terrorists and avoid confrontation with them, but we chose to trust in the strength and courage of the country’s youth, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said. [
Trade unions, opposition parties and civil society organizations are gearing up to hold a massive protest on the 21st against the electricity tariff hike and the performance of the government. [
Deputy leader of the Vavuniya Municipal council M.M.Rathan stated by lighting lamps in the Wellamulliwaikal and Karaiyan Mulliwaikal people paid their respect to civilians killed in the final stage of war in year 2009. [
Students of Jaffna University commemorated death anniversary of people killed in the Mulliwaikal war. [
A woman attempted to commit suicide by jumping into a well with her 3 children in Vavuniya this morning. [
Man who has married mother and daughter of same family arrested. [
International community continuously hold debates on genocide attacks carried out by the racist government against Tamil’s in SriLanka. [
There is little doubt that in 2009 the government of Sri Lanka pulled off one of the nastiest episodes of mass killing since the Rwandan genocide – and got away with it. Tens of thousands of civilians were massacred, with barely a trickle of Syria-like imagery emerging from the battle zone, The Australian reported. [